Probabilistic programming allows artificial systems to better operate with uncertainty, and stochastic arithmetic provides a way to carry out approximate computations with few resources. As such, both are plausible models for natural cognition. The authors' work on the automatic design of...

With the collapse of the Soviet Union, Caucasian countries experienced remarkable migration flows, political conflicts, and deterioration of civil registration systems. The reassessment of Armenian and Georgian population after censuses carried out in the early 2000s enables to re-estimate...

A ‘population observatory’ is a study in which a whole population of a defined geographical area is monitored over a long period (several years or decades), and information on the events that happen (births, deaths, marriages, migration) is collected on a regular basis. This paper...

Intro -- POPULATION DYNAMICS OF SENEGAL -- Copyright -- Preface -- Contents -- Executive Summary -- FERTILITY -- MORTALITY -- Child Mortality -- Adult Mortality -- NOTE -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Geographic and Socioeconomic Setting -- GEOGRAPHIC OVERVIEW -- HISTORICAL OVERVIEW -- EDUCATION --...